STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1992, sig. 109-6/84

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Within the Czech clergy, it is said that these negotiations had progressed so far that the Jesuits could move into the monastery of Sacre coeur in the next few days. In the local reply to the Reichsverband für das katholic Deutschtum abroad, a reference to the absolutely necessary replacement service to the Czechs would be particularly suitable in order to justify the rejection of the application. Perhaps it could also be pointed out that the current political conditions make it inappropriate to fail to meet the legitimate demands of Cardinal Kašpar and of the Czech Catholic people. It should be noted that the Reichsverband had won Bishop B e r n i g of Osnabrück for Catholic Germanism abroad to conduct the negotiations on the purchase of the building complex in question in Prague. It was also said that Bishop W i en c k en would lead the negotiations before Berlin. CATAE Vifuu u4